Yeah, it’s true that in this case most people would never have to care about that. When I replied I was thinking about inheritance taxes in general. My bad.

Not that insane. Most people only concern themselves with their own issues. And if you’re a 40 year old whose childhood home is now worth 500k or whatever and you have to pay 200k in taxes in order to inherit it, then you probably want to vote against it because otherwise the government will take it.

Okay, take all that with a grain of salt because I’m not too familiar with inheritance law, but it’s based on multiple similar stories I’ve heard from people.

I still think it should be taxed, don’t get me wrong. But I understand why people are against it.

You do realize that it’s mainly the poor people who are suffering when the rich don’t get taxed, right? It’s the governments getting robbed, yes, but that wasn’t the main takeaway from that comment.

Everything is a CIA psyop nowadays. Everything bad happens because of the USA. Everything good happens because people are strong enough to resist US influence.

Look at Cuba. Amazing government that provides free healthcare and people are super educated. And all the issues that they have are because of the US embargo. All the other issues like freedom of speech and whatnot are not actually real, just another CIA psyop.

So see? The USA is both super powerful and super weak.

It’s illegal to drive in slippers in certain countries, afaik. Slippers can… um… slip? Or whatever, they don’t offer the same amount of control, that’s for sure. Irrelevant 99.9% of the time, but for that 0.01%…

Who inspired Lara ? Tried to look it up but I can’t find anything.

Well, the action happens in Chicago. And there’s a special investigations unit that’s not very respected as far as I can remember(it’s a sort of dead end job that nobody wants) that he deals with and there’s a couple of good cops and a couple of bad cops there. For all the rest, the books keep mentioning how he doesn’t trust other cops, how many of them are in the pockets of mobsters and other villains, etc. There’s even corrupt fbi agents as antagonists in the second book.

Which is why I only own one Gaiman book, and even that was a gift. Even streaming music made by cunts feels bad nowadays… but I remind myself that there’s thousands others out there… so I just block the cunts and move on. (Black metal especially has quite a bit of nazis, unfortunately)

Lovely books, horrible human being, apparently. Such a shame

But there’s like 2 good cops, so it must be copaganda.

The same quote is also in the guardian article.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency

Gaza aid flotilla in the title. Not Greta’s flotilla. Her name is there because she’s the most well known person there, probably and also because not everyone was arrested.

It says in the article

The Global Sumud Flotilla said most of its vessels were continuing their journey as of early Thursday morning, nearing the coast of the Gaza strip despite the interruptions.

No, it doesn’t count as a gift. Even tho she screamed when she got it.

Well, after reading the whole thing… they have equally bad things to say about Russia and China, so I don’t think the article is written by a tankie. And even tho I disagree with their claims that Europe is sabotaging the peace talks in Ukraine (it’s obvious to most people that russia doesn’t wanna give up the land that they’ve taken and Ukraine isn’t happy to concede it either), I also can’t say for sure that they’re not. World leaders are known to be lying cunts and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that they are indeed doing that. They probably think it’s a good thing that Russia is spending so much time and resources in Ukraine.

Well, since niche in this thread seems to mean anything that came out more than 2-3 years ago and is less popular than GoT or the office, I’ll just nominate Chuck, Derry Girls and Banshee. If I were to stretch it even more I’d also say After Life and Ted Lasso(I’ve already watched this 3 times in the last 2 years… and I could watch it again without problems but I don’t wanna get sick of it)

Awesome series but niche? It’s an HBO series that’s on pretty much every list of the best series of all time. I’d hardly call that niche.

I think people are jumping to the beating part but ignoring the rest. The thought process usually goes like “wow, my parents would’ve spanked me for doing that… but they’re not doing anything!”

It’s not about the beating. It’s about the kid being allowed to do whatever without any action from the parent. Because that’s usually how it goes when a kid is being a nuisance.

I meant more in the sense that every decision you make needs to at the very least take the kid into consideration. When you have a kid it makes everything more expensive, it changes where and how you go on holiday, it changes where and how you go out to eat, etc. When you change careers you risk leaving a kid homeless, not just yourself. When you move to a different country you’re forcing that kid to adapt, not just yourself. Etc.

Yeah, that’s fair. We need better education across the board. Should be everyone’s main focus.

Okay, yeah, I see what you mean. I was thinking on the scale of this thread not the whole sociological perspective. And you’re right, they were probably not thinking of adoption like I was. Altho to link it to a guy who endorses the forced extinction of all life on Earth is a bit of a stretch, imo. Those people don’t care about overpopulation… they would think that even if there were only 100 million of us on earth.

There’s a difference between saying that more people should use contraceptives and promoting genocide, imo.